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November 15, 2011
1917 World Series Footage - Nearly 7 Minutes
The first clip has footage from Game 1, as well as pre-game stuff: fans waiting to get into Comiskey Park, the managers - Pants Rowland (White Sox) and John McGraw (Giants) - reviewing the ground rules, and starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte (RH) and Slim Sallee (LH) warming up. From the look of the White Sox players, it's Hammer Time.
In the long shot of the White Sox dugout, Happy Felsch is on the far left, with John "Shano" Collins beside him, followed by Fred McMullin and Reb Russell (just past the big baseball). Joe Jackson and Nemo Leibold may be standing outside the dugout, with Eddie Cicotte in the background and Chick Gandil and Byrd Lynn in front of Cicotte. ... The black man on the Giants bench at the one-minute mark may be J. L. Mackall, the team's trainer. Manager John McGraw is sitting in front of the dugout, with Art Fletcher on his right and Red Murray on his left.
This scoreboard outside the New York American newspaper offices gave fans the opportunity to follow the game from Chicago as it happens. Fred McMullin has just driven in the first run of the series in the bottom of the third, and Eddie Collins is now batting. The White Sox will win 2-1 and take the series in six games, despite being shutout for 24 consecutive innings. Despite the Giants playing on the road, they are listed as the home team (perhaps "Giants" is permanently affixed, since the scoreboard is in New York). (More information and pictures of how fans followed baseball games from afar more than 100 years ago can be found here.)
Footage from Games 3 (October 10) and 4 (October 11), played at the Polo Grounds in Washington Heights, in upper Manhattan. New York Mayor John Mitchel arrives and throws out the first pitch. The Giants win 2-0, scoring in the fourth when Holke doubles in Robison and Burns singles in Holke. In Game 4, Benny Kauff hits his first of two home runs; this one is an inside-the-park dong to center. New York wins 5-0. (The two Giants talking together are Rube Benton and Dave Robertson.)
A third clip, filmed in Chicago, is here.
19 comments:
- Jere said...
Is there a way to see the vids without buying?
Also, I know some papers used to put the home team on top in the linescore, maybe that's just how that scoreboard did it at that time. - November 15, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- laura k said...
Unbelievable! What a find.
- November 15, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Jere said...
No video working for me on any websites--problem must be on my end.
- November 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Jere said...
Whoa---that "third clip" you linked is NOT 1917, but the 1916 World Series, game 1. Those are the Red Sox and Dodgers at Braves Field. (If you read the text that flashes by, it says Duffy Lewis is knocking in Hoblitzel in the third. This is Game 1, 1916.)
- November 15, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Jere said...
This pic proves it's indeed Braves Field. (Compare roof to second half of video.)
- November 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Jere said...
I wrote in a new description on that site which they will review before updating. Is this the only known footage of the 1916 and 1917 WS?
- November 15, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- allan said...
Gotta be on your end.
I have a Freecorder thing that can record video played on my computer, but it doesn't work on these. Boo. - November 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Jere said...
"Gotta be on your end."
Yeah, I just had to restart my browser. (I guess I didn't clarify before my other comments that I am now indeed able to watch these--I wasn't just deducing it was 1916 from looking at the stills or anything, ha.) - November 15, 2011 at 3:23 PM
- johngoldfine said...
Excited crowds (all men as far as I can see) at key moments snatched off their fedoras or grabbed their handkerchiefs and waved them in a circle or back and forth. Not much like the wave.
- November 15, 2011 at 3:28 PM
- Amy said...
Fun! I can't believe the crowds is all men---and wearing ties, coats and hats!! What was wrong with those people? This was BASEBALL, not the opera or theater.
Boy, I am so lucky I live now. First, I probably never would have gotten to a baseball game, but would have been home cooking and cleaning. And two, I could never have gone out in public wearing jeans and t-shirts. - November 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- laura k said...
As late as the 1950s, when you see the crowds at sporting events, men were in suits and hats, and women were in dresses - also with hats, of course. The footage from the 50s shows lots of women in the crowd. And I know my great-aunts used to attend local ballgames in Brooklyn in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
- November 15, 2011 at 4:17 PM
- laura k said...
First, I probably never would have gotten to a baseball game, but would have been home cooking and cleaning. And two, I could never have gone out in public wearing jeans and t-shirts.
Definitely no jeans and t-shirts in public, or probably in private either. But you definitely could have gone to a ballgame.
Of course, as women we are very lucky to live here and now. No question. - November 15, 2011 at 4:18 PM
- allan said...
1916??????????????? Holy mislabeling, Batman! Gotta check this out when I get home.
In the meantime, kindly find me some 1918 footage. Like Ruth's Game 4 triple or Flack's dropped fly ball in Game 6. Cheers! - November 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Amy said...
It's just hard to imagine why people used to get so dressed up for a sporting event, but I guess they got dressed up for everything. Thank goodness that has changed! I'd be one miserable bitch if I had to wear what women were wearing in the 1950s or before. Girdles! Hoop skirts! Yikes!
- November 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- allan said...
I noticed that in one of the 1917 clips, the men lined up to get into the park are not observant of personal space. They are all crammed up against each other's back sides.
- November 15, 2011 at 4:21 PM
- laura k said...
I want to see my man Everett Scott play in 1918.
- November 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM
- laura k said...
People never went out in public without being hats, and for women, hats and gloves! Even pop bands wore slacks and jackets in the early 1960s!
But how restrictive women's clothes were depended on the era. The 1920s were good for women - loose clothes, smoking and drinking, driving - and going into all different professions. And during WWII when women worked in factories, things loosened up again. Then the 1950s came along and we had to be reined in again... - November 15, 2011 at 4:39 PM
- laura k said...
Ha ha, not being hats, wearing them! Although going out being hats is an amusing image.
- November 15, 2011 at 4:43 PM
- hrstrat57 said...
The White Sox before they went black sox.....amazing footage...especially Cicotte warming up...loved it!
- November 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM


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I've long wanted to design a series of socks inspired by the swirling beauty of Art Nouveau paintings, posters, and decorative motifs.
Once I saw the new ShibuiKnits Sock color Kiwi, I immediately thought of all the absinthe advertisements I had seen in Art History classes and while traveling across Europe.
These socks are tribute to the Green Fairy and all my favorite period artists.
Women's S [L]
Instep circumference: 7 – 7.5 [8 - 8.5] inches - adjustable to fit Foot length: 9.25 [9.75] inches
cable needle tapestry needle
32 sts/48 rows = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
The sock is worked toe-up, and instructions are written for working on two circulars. The cables and lace charts may look complicated, but are actually fairly easy.
Needles are labeled N1 and N2, representing needles 1, 2 respectively.
C1B: Slip next st to cn, hold in back, k; k1 from cn
C1F: Slip next st to cn, hold in front, k1; k1 from cn
C3B: Slip next st to cable needle and hold to back of work; k2, k1 from cable needle.
C3F: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to front of work; k1, k2 from cable needle.
C3BP: Slip next st to cable needle and hold to back of work; k2, p1 from cable needle.
C3FP: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to front of work; p1, k2 from cable needle.
C4B: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back of work; k2, k2 from cable needle.
C4F: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to front of work; k2, k2 from cable needle.
C4BP: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to back of work; k2, p2 from cable needle.
C4FP: Slip next 2 sts to cable needle and hold to front of work; p2, k2 from cable needle.
Repeat Rounds 1 & 2 until there are 56 [64] sts total (28 [32] sts on each needle).
Continue in stockinette st until piece measures 3.25 [3.75] inches from CO edge, or until piece measures 6 inches LESS than desired total foot length.
Foot & gussets: Smaller size only: Transfer two sts from both ends of N2 to N1. There will be 32 sts on N1 and 24 sts on N2.
The instep of the sock will be worked on N1, the sole on N2.
Begin Foot Chart on N1 while continuing to work the sole sts on N2 in stockinette as established. Work until round 47 of the chart is complete (88 [96] sts total; 64 on N1, [24] 32 on N2).
Next round, rearrange sts on needles to setup for heel: K1, p15 with N2. With N1, p6, k20, p6. With N2, p15, k1. You'll now have 32 sts on N1 and 56 [64] sts on N2, and you'll be in position to work the heel.
Heel Flap: Next row (RS): [K1, Sl1] 5 times across unwrapped sts, K each wrapped st tog with its wrap, turn. P17 [21], P each wrapped st with its wrap, turn. RS: *Sl 1, K1* across 24 [30] sts, Sl1, K last heel flap st together with first gusset st, turn. WS: Sl1, P26 [30], P last heel flap st tog with first gusset st, turn. Continue in this manner, working 1 gusset st tog with the heel flap every row until all gusset sts have been decreased. Dec will end with a WS row. Turn work and K across heel sts. 56 [64] sts rem TOTAL on both needles.
First round of leg: Work the setup row of the leg chart on the sts on N1, and work the sts on N2 in stockinette st as established.
Continue, working leg chart on N1 and stockinette st on N2, until 5 full repeats of chart have been worked - a total of 70 rounds.
Cuff: Ribbing round: [K2, p2] to end of round. Work 12 Ribbing rounds total.
Weave in ends. Block lightly to make cables more pronounced.
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Raphael Saadiq lyrics : "Movin' Down The Line"
You can clap your hands if you want to
What's in your eyes? 'Cause they talk to me
They know how to read my mind
I get this feeling when you're next to me
It's like joy of summertime
I wanna be your favorite song
That would only bring you joy
But now that I never see you
I can only wish for more
But I
At the end of the I
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Should I stop by and say hi
Or just keep riding straight?
I wanna to be your hero
And everyone else knows
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Oh, come on baby, let's move it together
It's just you and me, baby, that's all we got
I like it, I like it
Matter of fact, I love it
Without you there would be no life
Life for me to see
I do believe I'm the best when you
Are holding on to me
See, this love just keeps getting sweeter
Year after year
You know you're something like a miracle
Always knew you would appear
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Don't you wanna dance?
Don't you?
Come on, hold my hand, baby
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This is what Mr. Leon Ware would say
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Love in the sun, love watching the moon
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She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists.
For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific institute in Novosibirsk, apart from a period in Moscow when her remains were treated by the same scientists who preserve the body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin.
To mark the move 'home', The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.
They are all believed to be Pazyryk people - a nomadic people described in the 5th century BC by the Greek historian Herodotus - and the colourful body artwork is seen as the best preserved and most elaborate ancient tattoos anywhere in the world.
To many observers, it is startling how similar they are to modern-day tattoos.
The remains of the immaculately dressed 'princess', aged around 25 and preserved for several millennia in the Siberian permafrost, a natural freezer, were discovered in 1993 by Novosibirsk scientist Natalia Polosmak during an archeological expedition.
Buried around her were six horses, saddled and bridled, her spiritual escorts to the next world, and a symbol of her evident status, perhaps more likely a revered folk tale narrator, a healer or a holy woman than an ice princess.
There, too, was a meal of sheep and horse meat and ornaments made from felt, wood, bronze and gold. And a small container of cannabis, say some accounts, along with a stone plate on which were the burned seeds of coriander.
'Compared to all tattoos found by archeologists around the world, those on the mummies of the Pazyryk people are the most complicated, and the most beautiful,' said Dr Polosmak. More ancient tattoos have been found, like the Ice Man found in the Alps - but he only had lines, not the perfect and highly artistic images one can see on the bodies of the Pazyryks.
'It is a phenomenal level of tattoo art. Incredible.'
While the tattoos, preserved in the permafrost, have been known about since the remains were dug up, until now few have seen the intricate reconstructions that we reveal here.
'Tattoos were used as a mean of personal identification - like a passport now, if you like. The Pazyryks also believed the tattoos would be helpful in another life, making it easy for the people of the same family and culture to find each other after death,' added Dr Polosmak. 'Pazyryks repeated the same images of animals in other types of art, which is considered to be like a language of animal images, which represented their thoughts.
'The same can be said about the tattoos - it was a language of animal imagery, used to express some thoughts and to define one's position both in society, and in the world. The more tattoos were on the body, the longer it meant the person lived, and the higher was his position. For example the body of one man, which was found earlier in the 20th century, had his entire body covered with tattoos. Our young woman - the princess - has only her two arms tattooed. So they signified both age and status.'
The tattoos on the left shoulder of the 'princess' show a fantastical mythological animal: a deer with a griffon's beak and a Capricorn's antlers. The antlers are decorated with the heads of griffons. And the same griffon's head is shown on the back of the animal.
The mouth of a spotted panther with a long tail is seen at the legs of a sheep. She also has a deer's head on her wrist, with big antlers. There is a drawing on the animal's body on a thumb on her left hand.
On the man found close to the 'princess', the tattoos include the same fantastical creature, this time covering the right side of his body, across his right shoulder and stretching from his chest to his back. The patterns mirror the tattoos on a much more elaborately covered male body, dug from the ice in 1929, whose highly decorated torso is also reconstructed in our drawing here.
His chest, arms, part of the back and the lower leg are covered with tattoos. There is an argali - a mountain sheep - along with the same deer with griffon's vulture-like beak, with horns and the back of its head which has a griffon's heads and an onager drawn on it.
All animals are shown with the lower parts of their bodies turned inside out. There is also a winged snow leopard, a fish and fast-running argali.
To some, the clash depicted on the tattoes between vultures and hoofed animals corresponds to the conflict between two worlds: a predator from the lower, chthonian world against herbivorous animals that symbolise the middle world.
Dr Polosmak is intrigued at way so little has changed.
'We can say that most likely there was - and is - one place on the body for everyone to start putting the tattoos on, and it was a left shoulder. I can assume so because all the mummies we found with just one tattoo had it on their left shoulders.
'And nowadays this is the same place where people try to put the tattoos on, thousands of years on.
'I think its linked to the body composition... as the left shoulder is the place where it is noticeable most, where it looks the most beautiful. Nothing changes with years, the body stays the same, and the person making a tattoo now is getting closer to his ancestors than he or she may realise.
'I think we have not moved far from Pazyryks in how the tattoos are made. It is still about a craving to make yourself as beautiful as possible.
'For example, about the British. A lot of them go on holiday to Greece, and when I've been there I heard how Greeks were smiling and saying that a British man's age can be easily understood by the number of tattoos on his body.
'I'm talking the working class now. And I noticed it, too. The older a person, the more tattoos are on his body.'
'It was an international research programme, devoted to the Pazyryk Iron Age culture,' said Academician Vyacheslav Molodin, deputy director of Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.
To modern man, the only way in is by helicopter, yet in ancient times this was on the 'southern steppe road' used by migrating nomadic peoples in the pre-Christian and Dark Ages.
'The burial mound with the 'princess' seemed to be half deserted, with big holes which border guards dug to use the stones.
'It seemed less than hopeful. But Natalya Polosmak was determined that we had to start working on it.....
'To our utter surprise, there was an untouched burial chamber inside the mould.
'We started working on opening the 'ice lense' - the burial inside the mould was filled with ancient ice.
'We started to melt the ice. First the skeletons of six horses appeared, some with preserved wooden decorations on the harness, some with coloured saddles made from felt.
'On one of the saddles was a picture of a jumping winged lion.
'Then the burial room appeared from under the ice. It was made from larch logs. Inside stood a massive hollowed wooden log with a top, shut with bronze nails. Inside the log was all filled with ice.
'It was a tanned arm that appeared from under the ice first.
'A bit more work and we saw remain of a young woman, lying inside the log in a sleeping position, with her knees bent.
'She was dressed in a long shirt made from Chinese silk, and had long felt sleeve boots with a beautiful decoration on them.
'Chinese silk before was only found in 'Royal' burials of the Pazyryk people - it was more expensive than gold, and was a sign of a true wealth. 'There was jewellery and a mirror found by the log.
'The great value of Pazyryk burials is that they were all made in permafrost, which helped the preservation.
'It was quite unusual to have a single Pazyryk burial. Usually men from this culture were buried with women.
'In this case, her separate burial might signify her celibacy, which was typical for cult servants or shamans, and meant her independence and exceptionality.
'She had no weapons buried with her, or on her, which means that she certainly was not one of the noble Pazyryk women-warriors.
'Most likely, she possessed some special knowledge and was a healer, or folk tale narrator.
'From the inside the mummy was filled with herbs and roots. Her head was completely shaved, and she wore a horse hair wig.
'On top of the wig there was a symbol of the tree of life - a stick made from felt, wrapped with black tissue and decorated with small figures of birds in golden foil.
'On the front of the wig, like a cockade, was attached a wooden carving of deer.
'The princess's face and neck skin was not preserved, but the skin of her left arm survived, and we saw a tattoo, going all along it.
'She had tattoos on both arms, from shoulders to wrists, with some on the fingers, too. The best preserved of all was a tattoo on her left shoulder, featuring a deer with griffon's beak and a Capricorn's horns. A bit below is a sheep, with a snow leopard by its feet.'
It is said tattoos, once done, are for life. In this case, though, it was a whole lot longer. The experts say they were made with paint, partially concocted from the burned bits of plants, their soot or ashes which contained a high level of potassium. The drawings were pierced with a needle, and rubbed with a mixture of soot and fat.
The experts say she died in her 20s, with the best guess at 25 to 28, and that this was 2,500 or more years ago, making her, for example, some five centuries older than Jesus Christ, and several hundred years the senior of Alexander the Great.
'She was called 'Princess' by the media. We just call her 'Devochka', meaning 'Girl'. She was 25-28 years old when she died,' said Irina Salnikova, head of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences Museum of Archeology and Ethnography.
'The reason for her death is unknown, because all her internal organs were removed before the mummifying. All we see is that there is no visible damage to her skull, or anything pointing to the unnatural character of her death.
'Her body is curled, so we cant say for sure how tall she was. Some estimate her to be 1.62 metres, others say she could have been as tall as 1.68 metres. We could not establish when the young woman has had her tattoos made, at what age. The horses, found by her burial, were most likely first killed, and then buried with her.'
In 2010 an MRI scan was conducted on the mummy, the first time this had been done on ancient remains in Russia. The final results of exhaustive analytical work has still not been released.
But Andrei Letyagin, chairman of the MRI Center of the Siberian department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: 'The cause of death remains unknown. I don't believe that it will be possible to find an answer to this question because there's no brain and no internal organs in the body.'
In all probability she did not die from injury. 'Her skull is fully preserved, and so are the bones,' he confirmed. DNA obtained from her remains is intriguing.
The Princess of Ukok is not related to any of the Asian races, the scientists are convinced. She is not related, evidently, to the present day inhabitants of Altai. Moreover, she had a European appearance, it has been claimed.
'There was a moment of gross misunderstanding when a legend came about this mummy being a foremother of people of Altai,' said Molodin.
'The people of Pazyryk belonged to different ethnic group, in no way related to Altaians. Genetic studies showed that the Pazyryks were a part of Samoyedic family, with elements of Iranian-Caucasian substratum.'
So perhaps more Samoyedic than Scythian.
'We tried to overcome the misunderstanding, but sadly it didn't work.'
Many locals in Altai were nervous from the start about the removal of remains from sacred burial mounds, known as kurgans, regardless of the value to science of doing such work.
In a land where the sway of shamans still holds, they believe the princess's removal led immediately to bad consequences.
'There are places here that it is considered a great sin to visit, even for our holy men. The energy and the spirits there are too dangerous,' warned one local. 'Every kurgan has its own spirit - there is both good and bad in them - and people here have suffered much misfortune since the Ice Princess was disturbed.'
It is nothing short of sacrilege to pour hot water on the remains of ancients who have survived in the permafrost for thousands of years, he said.
The 'curse of the mummy' even caused a crash of the helicopter carrying her remains away from Altai, some believe. Then in Novosibirsk, her body, preserved so well for so long, started to decompose.
Stories circulated that the princess had been stored in a freezer used to preserve cheese. Fungi began growing on the preserved flesh, it was claimed.
Whatever the truth, the scientists sought emergency help from the world-renowned Lenin embalming experts who worked on her remains for a year.
Back in Altai, many ills have been blamed on her removal: forest fires, high winds, illness, suicides and an upsurge in earthquakes in the Altai region.
Local woman, Olga Kurtugashova, said: 'She may be a mummy but her soul survives, and they say a shaman communicated with her and she asked to go home. That's what the people want, too.'
'Our ancestors are buried in these mounds,' insisted Rimma Erkinova, deputy director of the Gorno-Altaisk Republican National Museum as a war of words raged over the last decade. 'There are sacred items there. The Altai people never disturb the repose of their ancestors. We shouldn't have any more excavations until we've worked out a proper moral and ethical approach.'
'She was a beautiful young woman, whom they dug up, poured hot water and chemicals upon, and subjected to other experiments. They did this to a real person,' complained Erkinova to the Irish Times newspaper in in 2004.
The same year, an Altai regional chief insisted: 'We must calm people and bury the Altai Princess.
'We're having earth tremors two or three times a week. People think this will go on as long as the princess's spirit is not allowed to rest in peace.'
Many wanted the princess to be returned from the Archaeological and Ethnographic Institute of Novosibirsk, some 600 km away, and restored to her original burial site.
After some 300 earth tremors in a six month period, the head of Kosh-Agachsky district Auelkhan Dzhatkambaev,appealed to the Siberian Federal District presidential envoy Leonid Drachevsky for this to happen.
Drachevsky travelled to Kosh-Agach and told residents that the mummies would not be returned, saying they were serving important scientific purposes, and that he was 'simply uncomfortable hearing about angry spirits, as if we were living in the Middle Ages'.
Erkinova's plan was different. 'We shall put the princess in a glass sarcophagus, so everybody can come and bow before her,' she said.
'This is a very painful issue. Altai's native people worry about their forbear. The Princess must return to us.'
People were angry, too, that the mummies were taken on a tour to Korea and Japan with one report saying the princess 'was met like a diva, with vast crowds, admirers on their knees and bouquets of red roses'.
Eventually a compromise was reached, though delays and arguments followed. Finally this culminates in this month's return of the princess not to her burial place but to the Altai museum.
'We agreed to give back the princess once the conditions for looking after it were right. That means proper accommodation with an air conditioner and a special sarcophagus,' said Molodin as long ago as 1997.
'Another condition was that this was our intellectual property and that we would have the right to use it for exhibitions and to study it. We're not doing this out of curiosity but in the interests of science. The soul is somewhere else and we're studying the remains. So I don't see a violation of any accepted social rule here.'
Finally, all now agree the princess is coming home.
The Altai authorities have now declared the remote mountain area from where the princess and her kinsmen were buried as a 'zone of peace' where no more excavations will take place, despite the near-certain treasures lying in the permafrost.
Such work amounts to plundering, they believe.
To Molodin, who found the male mummy several years after the princess, this deprives the world of a valuable scientific inheritance. He argues, too, that the issue is critical since global warming means the ancient bodies will decay.
Scientists reckon there are thousands of burial mounds here, hundreds of which date to the Pazyryk period, many of which may contain answers to questions about where we come from.
See related: 'Fashion and beauty secrets of 2,500 Siberian 'princess' from her perfamrost burial chamber'
and 'A row has erupted over 'illegal' gas pipeline through burial site of ancient 'tattooed princess'
The Siberian Times thanks Dr. Natalya Polosmak, Elena Shumakova, Irina Salnikova and 'Science First Hand' Magazine for the images and drawings of tattoos.


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According to Google, more than 20% of all searches are related to location. In order to improve the effectivness of geo-targeting, Google is now allowing users to tag ZIP codes, among other changes, within AdWords Location Targeting. This change will surely have an impact as 88% of smartphone users who search for local information take action within one day, according to Google. Via Search Engine Watch.
5 Ways to Market Your Brand with Location-Based Networks
With the rise in popularity of mobile location-based apps like Foursquare, location based marketing is something businesses should take advantage of. About 30% of smartphone owners access their social networks via their mobile browser, for businesses looking to include location based services this article provides some tips for getting started. Via Mashable.
Rethinking Maslow's Hierarchy: Implications for a Socially-Connected World
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Pinterest Now 3rd Most Popular Social Network [Study]
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Leaked: Google Analytics Is Making Its Way To Google+
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Think $50,000 overcoat, and it's easy to conjure a story in Us Weekly about a celebrity shopping binge that also includes $100,000 shoes, a stop for multiple Hermes purses, followed by merengues with Victoria Beckham. A $50,000 coat is an indulgence, but what Hanover, N.H., author Meg Lukens Noonan found in her book "The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury & Obsession on the Trail of the $50,000 Coat " was something far more reserved. The coat in question represents a hundreds-year-old tradition of bespoke clothing with some of the most luxurious material available, assembled by skilled craftsmen. She traced the route of the materials that make up the Vicuna coat with Italian silk lining, and collected her adventures in "Coat."
Q. How did you come across the coat?
A. I had done a story about the ultimate down comforter. I had an interest in luxury items that are made in remote places. I was hunting around for other things like that with the idea that I'd write a book about them. But I found this coat. I was so impressed with how multi-layered the coat was and the people behind it that I thought maybe this could be a book on its own.
Q. A lot of people would poo-poo the idea of having to pay $50,000 for a coat. Was that your initial reaction when you heard about the coat?
A. I was fascinated by it. I was so curious about the person or people who would pay this kind of money for a garment. I didn't know anything about the bespoke tailoring world. I had no idea that there was this subculture out there. There were people, mostly men, who spend money on clothing rather than going out and buying a car or a yacht. I found it fascinating. These clothes didn't even have labels on them. You can't even flash your Armani label when you're taking off your jacket.
Q. How large is the subculture of men buying this level of clothing?
A. I think it's small. I don't know numbers. They're very passionate about it. It's a small world, but it's big enough to sustain the number of craftsman producing these things.
Q. From the book, it sounds as if there's a fear that it's a generation of craftsman who are dying off and not being replaced.
A. Definitely. Everywhere I went there's a feeling that these men, the craftsman behind all parts of this right down to the buttons, don't have sons or daughters coming in. These are third- and fourth-generation craftsman who have been carrying on the family business for 150-plus years. They don't have successors.
Q. What about the subculture of the men who are buying these clothes? Is it shrinking as well?
A. From what I gather there has been renewed interest in custom-made clothing. Savile Row in London has seen an uptick in orders and they think that part of it might be due to TV shows like "Downton Abbey" and "Mad Men." Things that show men in beautiful, tailored clothing.
Q. Did you find yourself craving the finer things after writing the book?
A. The first discouraging realization I had was how poorly all my clothes fit because I was around these men who were wearing perfectly tailored clothes. They are wearing clothes that are sculptural. The way that these clothes are built onto their bodies, even if they don't have the best physiques, is incredible. After the realization that my clothes didn't really fit and they were poorly made, it was a little disheartening. I did dream that someday I'd be able to order a bespoke something. Maybe a cashmere-blend blazer?
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Clint Eastwood has been a very, very big movie star for more than four decades, and his recent empty-chair-addressing turn at the GOP convention aside, he's long been a Hollywood player whose every move, onscreen and off, matters.
Ever since his epic revisionist Western Unforgiven came out of nowhere 20 years ago to win four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, Eastwood has been a favorite of fans and critics alike. Before then, of course, he had a massive popular following, with his movies often making heaps of money, while Clint himself was viewed by most nephiles as little more than a good-looking, charismatic muscle-head. Never mind that when he directed films they usually came in on schedule and under budget: until Unforgiven (or, perhaps, 1985's highly lauded Pale Rider), Clint was the guy with the gun, or the fists, whose acting range ran the gamut from grim to grimmer.
As Eastwood's work has grown at least somewhat more nuanced through the years — see films, to name just a few, as diverse and ambitious as Bird, Gran Torino, J. Edgar and Invictus — more and more critics have been singing his praises as a genuine film auteur and a Hollywood treasure.
And like other American pop culture icons (Jerry Lewis comes immediately to mind) Eastwood has long been celebrated internationally as an artist, rather than just a box office draw. For example, he's been awarded not one but two of France's most prestigious cultural honors: in the 2000s he was made a Commandeur of the nation's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and later earned a Légion d'honneur medal.
[Buy the recently released LIFE "Icons" biography, Clint Eastwood.]
Here, LIFE.com honors the man with a series of pictures — most of which did not run in LIFE — by photographer Bill Eppridge in 1971. The images here were made on the set of a movie that would introduce a character with whom, for better or worse, Eastwood has been associated ever since: the brutal, gun-happy rebel cop, "Dirty Harry" Callahan.
But what's also revealing — and all these years later, somehow kind of sweet — is the way LIFE talked about Eastwood in the cover story that ran in the magazine in July 1971, five months before Dirty Harry hit theaters and, quickly, became a controversial cultural touchstone. Right there, on the cover of the issue, is the (perhaps) tongue-in-cheek words observation that sets the tone for the profile inside: "The world's favorite movie star is — no kidding — Clint Eastwood."
Then there's the title of the piece: "Who Can Stand 32, 580 Seconds of Clint Eastwood? Just About Everybody." (The number refers to the time it would take to watch all the films in a nine-hour film festival of early Eastwood "spaghetti Westerns" that was running at the time.)
But even back then, Eastwood's singular appeal as a Hollywood stud — with far more going on under the surface than most of his hits up until then might suggest — comes through. While his biggest fans (among moviegoers and critics alike) in 1972 could hardly have envisioned the esteem and the affection he would enjoy into his 80s, the Clint in the LIFE profile, and in these pictures, is a man clearly and fully at ease with himself. He's a star who knows, as he says in the article, that "you have to give people good entertainment … If I started to pay too much attention to what the reviewers say, I'd have an ulcer."
Four decades later, the reviewers are still trying to decipher Eastwood. And it's clear that, four decades, later, he still doesn't much care if they ever succeed.
Eastwood cover photo—Bob Peterson
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.
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How resilient is the Kenyan economy?
The FT has a great special report on investing in Kenya. Highlights include pieces on devolution, President Uhuru Kenyatta's "Big Four" legacy projects (including an ambitious plan to build 500,000 new homes), and the promises of the tech sector.
Meanwhile, nominal GDP growth is projected to remain respectable, despite sky-high corruption and generalized administrative failures in both the county-level and national governments.
And here is an excerpt from one of the pieces:
A 2016 report from New World Wealth, an independent South Africa-based research group, found that 8,500 of Kenya's roughly 48m people controlled more than two-thirds of the country's wealth.


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Fellow Jerusalmite Esser Agorot has posted Haveil Havalim #382 - The Dual Elections Edition in honor of the interest generated by the US elections and the Israel elections to be held Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
In Israel voters go behind a partition and choose a piece of paper with the letters of the party they wish to vote for and put that in an official envelope which they were given. When all the votes are counted the seats in the Knesset are divided among the parties proportionally. If your party received 10% of the votes then you would get 12 Knesset seats.
But how do you know which 12 party members get the seats? Each party submits a list of 120 names of would-be Knesset members. Then in the order they are on that list, they take seats in the Knesset so in our example names 1-12 on the list become Knesset members. If one of these 12 should happen to resign (or falls as in \bottles of beer on the wall') then the 13th name takes her place. So the order on the lists submitted to the election board really matters.
The Likud party has primaries and anyone who becomes a member of the party can vote (after 16 months membership). My favorite candidate on the Likud's list is Tzipi Hotovely. At age 33 she is finishing up her first term in the Knesset with an impressive record as the Chairwoman of the Knesset Committee on the Status of Women as well as some other important committee membership. She is firmly planted in the nationalist wing of the party of the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. She is an eloquent proponent of many important family issues as well an advocate for strengthening Jewish settlements all over the country.
This week I answered a call to help out in her office as the primaries in the Likud are November 22. I got there and joined a group of young people in stuffing envelopes (!) with flyers extolling her achievements in the 18th Knesset to be sent out to Likud members who will be voting in the primaries.
That brought back memories of the last time I stuffed envelopes in an election campaign. It was 1966 and Bobby Kennedy was running for Senator from New York. I went to a midtown New York City office with some friends and we were put to work stuffing envelopes with campaign material.
It was in that same election that I spent a Friday afternoon with some high school friends accompanying the candidate from one department store parking lot to another supermarket parking lot where he took to the platform and made a short speech to the cheering crowd and shook hands with anyone willing to step up. Our 'job' was to go on the bus and arrive at each venue before Kennedy and hand out campaign material and lead the cheering when he showed up. We were a very enthusiastic group of teenagers and did our job with gusto.
I was having a good time and thinking how nifty democracy is. Then someone from the campaign came on the bus and said that since we had done such a great job we were all invited to have a fish dinner with Kennedy his staff at a nearby restaurant. Remember it was 1966 and Kennedy was a Catholic and it was Friday. It would be very exciting and really something to remember. But it was Friday and I had to get home to light Shabbat candles with my mother. It was a sunny breezy fall afternoon and I remember as if it were this morning the thought that went through my head a I got off the bus and headed in the opposite direction to my family and home. No matter how integrated I might feel, in the end I would always be an outsider.


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World's First Animated Tattoo
Most of the time when you think of an animated tattoo, you think of some chick with a Tweety Bird tattoo on her ankle or some such nonsense.
A tattoo artist named K.A.R.L. at the Mystery Tattoo Club in Paris France tattooed a matix code, that's one of those funny square looking bar codes, to link to an animation of the tattoo.
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It's that time again, carnival is nearly upon us and that means time for another installment of our World Carnival mix series. The latest addition is number 6 in the series and was kindly hosted by Don't Watch That as a carnival edition of their Don't Mix That series. Get this through your speakers and head over to Don't Watch That to read a carnival themed Q&A with us.
As per the other mixes we have featured tunes we have been bumping at HDD HQ and at our monthly parties, spanning soca, dancehall, afropop and club music. It will definitely get you in the mood for Notting Hill Carnival and for our World Carnival party this Sunday.
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Stush HDD Intro
MJ Cole Crazy Love (Murlo Edit)
Kes Endless Summer
Hipsters Don't Dance Style Up
Popcaan Cool It
Tinashe 2 On (Murlo Refix)
Kranium Nobody Has To Know (Show Me Remix)
Moelogo The Baddest Remix (feat. Giggs)
Mavado Nuh Trust Friend
Leftside Wickidest Wine
Ward 21 Spot The J
Raine Seville Mad Dem
Demarco Gyal Anthem
Gage Hello Kitty
Busy Signal Saddle Up
Timaya Sanko
Patoranking Girlie O
Arri Peters We Drinking (Feat. D'Chancellor)
Joey B Tonga (Feat. Sarkodie)
Marcy Chin Bounce (Feat. Ward 21)
Bunji Garlin All O'Dem
Patrice Roberts Wukking Up
Navino Give God The Glory
Machel Montano Drop It Down
Kes Never See Come See
Busy Signal Luv Gyal
Owiny Signoma Band Nyiduonge drums
Tl Dreamz Undi Da Ki Penha (Feat. DJ Djeff)
Wizkid Show Me D Money
Major Notes 419 Riddim
Gaia Beat Timpelequece (Feat. Fiuk Tutuka)
Bunji Garlin Gi Dem Dey
Olatunji Yearwood Wha Yuh Drinkin
Jubilee I-95
CYPHR & Sudanim U Most
Robzilla Calling All Girls (Samrai's World Carnival Remix feat Fox )
Konshens & J Capri Pull Up To Mi Bumper (#G2DJ Remix)
Girl Unit Club Rez (Rizzla's Club Cecile Bootleg Kunq)


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MILWAUKEE -- St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Carlos Martinez had a rough night at Miller Park Thursday, giving up five earned runs in just four innings pitched.
The Milwaukee Brewers offense was largely to blame, scoring six more runs after Martinez's exit to take home an 11-3 victory. But while the Brew Crew's bats were hot, is there perhaps something more... supernatural at work?
Martinez, after all, said on Wednesday that a ghost appeared in his room at the Pfister Hotel — and it appears as if that specter followed him to Miller Park Thursday. And only a being from the world of the beyond could be responsible for a pitch this atrocious:
.@travis_shaw21 scored in the 3rd on one of the wildest wild pitches ever. #ThisIsMyCrew pic.twitter.com/450sUJcSWg
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) June 22, 2018
That pitch brought Shaw in to score, and the rout was on.
Thursday's defeat was the fifth straight loss hung on Martinez. His last victory was more than a month ago, on May 2nd against the Chicago White Sox.
Call it bad luck, call it a rough stretch -- call it whatever you like. Martinez just might call it a supernatural presence instead.


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Inside a high-end mecca -- Make''n Music
Chicago, IL (May 8, 2008) - One of the coolest things about our On Location road trips is the chance to see famous and not-so-famous guitar-centric destinations that are associated with a particular area. Basically, any joint where guitars are made, played or displayed interests us so it''s our pleasure to document these locales and share them with you.
Here''s one that''ll make your jaw hit the ground -- Make''n Music, a Chicago guitar shop that houses an insane selection of high-end gear. The store''s owner, Teddy Gordon, understands what guitarists who play such gear look for in a guitar shop. The store is discrete -- you can easily drive right past it unless you know what you''re looking for. You enter through the back alley speak easy-style after hitting a button and waiting to be buzzed in. Then you make your way down the hallway (past Schroeder Guitar Repair and Custom Building, which is in the same building) to a cavernous room full o'' gear. The video below gives you a taste of what Make''n Music is all about.
One of the coolest things about Make''n music is the store''s selection of one-offs. The video below shows you their selection of one-off Fenders, Martins and Breedloves. You''ll also see a slew of PRS guitars, a Martin D-28 Authentic (flanked by two Blackies!), Collings acoustics and Huss & Dalton acoustics. Also, Premier Guitar''s Brett Petrusek plays a Composite Acoustic to give you an idea of what a non-wood guitar sounds like.
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Altman came to St. Louis Public Radio from Dallas where she hosted All Things Considered and reported north Texas news at KERA. Altman also spent several years in Illinois: first in Chicago where she interned at WBEZ; then as the Morning Edition host at WSIU in Carbondale; and finally in Springfield, where she earned her graduate degree and covered the legislature for Illinois Public Radio.
A native Iowan, Altman earned her bachelors degree in journalism at the University of Iowa. She remains a devoted Hawkeye. In her free time, Altman likes hiking, swing dancing, and searching for the perfect diner.


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The Broad Institute, a biomedical research juggernaut in Cambridge, has received the biggest gift worldwide for psychiatric research, a $650 million commitment that could help scientists unravel the genetic underpinnings of diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and begin to develop better treatments.
The gift from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to be announced Tuesday, coincides with the publication of the largest genomic study of schizophrenia, which identified more than 100 spots in the genome that are associated with the disease. That study, done by a group that includes Broad researchers and published in the journal Nature Monday, is only a first step toward the ultimate goal of developing treatments that target the molecular causes of the disease, but it is the type of research the donation will help support.
Such information would allow scientists to finally understand what causes diseases that have remained some of medicine's toughest puzzles, so difficult that they have been largely abandoned by many drug companies though hundreds of millions of people suffer from mental illness at a global cost of $2.5 trillion per year, according to the World Health Organization.
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Already, Stanley has given the Broad $175 million, and the new commitment makes him the research center's largest benefactor so far. The $650 million will be provided as an annual cash flow that will vary, but is in the ballpark of tens of millions each year. The remainder will be given after Stanley's death.
Stanley, 83, made his fortune heading MBI, a Connecticut company that markets and sells collectibles. He and his late wife, Vada, became deeply invested in mental health issues when their son, Jonathan, suffered from bipolar disorder in college. Jonathan was successfully treated with lithium and now works as an attorney and advocate for people with mental illness, but the struggle to help their son was, Stanley said, "a revelation moment" that gave direction to their philanthropy.
"There was a pill that saved his life. Essentially, it gave him the ability to have a normal life with a normal functioning brain," Stanley said in an interview. "If I had had the same downfall at the same age that he had, I would have had my life ruined . . . because in between when I was that age and he was that age, someone had discovered that lithium makes people well when they have that illness."
Stanley had read everything he could get his hands on while his son was sick and had become acutely aware that many people with mental illness were not as fortunate, a situation that he hoped he and his wife could help solve.
His donation will provide long-term security for the research program at a critical moment, when US government funding for biomedical research has become uncertain and more competitive. It is the latest in a series of high-profile gifts from private donors to support mental health research.
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The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative has given more than $200 million to support research on autism. Microsoft cofounder Paul G. Allen has given $500 million to support the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.
"The federal support for biomedical research broadly, from cancer to mental health, really has stalled out over the last decade," said Dr. Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. "We're at a point where we have the tools to be able to answer these questions. . . . We have the samples. We have the tools. We just haven't had the funds to be able to do the actual [gene] sequencing that we need to. These funds will certainly help the Broad Institute, which is already at the forefront of this field, to move faster and further."
Studying mental illness is particularly challenging.
"Cancer biology is very hard, of course," said Dr. Steven Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad, founded by Stanley and his wife in 2007. "But in cancer, the surgeon literally hands the scientist the cells that are the disease, and then people can go to work on them."
With mental illness, the cells are inaccessible. "Our brains are both sacrosanct and protected behind a bony skull," Hyman said, leaving genetics as the only way to get "molecular clues . . . that could be exploited for therapy."
Eric Lander, founding director of the Broad, said he hopes that better characterizing the molecular underpinnings of psychiatric diseases will finally give researchers the insights they need to start a revolution like the one that has occurred in cancer, where there are hundreds of drugs in development.
"It isn't going to lead to any new cures next week or next year, but it will — as with cancer, I believe — lead to major therapies and in some cases, cures," Lander said. He pointed to the new Nature paper as both an example of the scale of the problem and the promise of the approach.
Previously, roughly 30 spots in people's DNA had been identified that were associated with schizophrenia. The new study, which drew on the efforts of hundreds of doctors and scientists from more than 20 countries, compared the genomes of 37,000 people with schizophrenia and 113,000 people without the disease.
The spots found to be associated with the disease confirm leading theories behind schizophrenia's origins, for example, underscoring the importance of signaling between brain cells involving a chemical called dopamine.
The findings also point to new spots to be investigated further, including a region of the genome involved in how the body learns to recognize pathogens, suggesting that the immune system may play a role in the disease.
"The scale of this effort is amazing and has few precedents in human genetics," said Steve McCarroll, director of genetics for the Stanley Center.
The study was done by an international consortium including researchers from the Broad and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Insel said that what was most exciting to him was a promising finding hinted at near the end of the paper. When researchers looked for particular genetic changes in several groups of people, they found signature genetic patterns that appeared to be signs of elevated risk of the disease.
"We're pretty convinced in schizophrenia, we're getting involved very late in the game," Insel said. "It's a little bit like for heart disease we only used to see patients when they had a heart attack. Wouldn't it be great if we could figure out who was at risk for schizophrenia and give them all the support they need, so they don't actually become psychotic?"
Already, researchers are planning their next project, including studying even greater numbers of people with disease and without. They also hope to use advances in stem cell biology and genome editing tools to begin to figure out what genetic changes do to alter cell function and cause disease.
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Annual tax bills, which can be paid in two installments, are mailed once a year by the first of November. Since the bill contains payment stubs for both installments, this is the only bill regularly mailed each year by the Tax Collector. Depending on when the ownership change is placed on the tax roll, the annual tax bill could be sent either to the previous owner or directly to you. If there are any remaining unpaid taxes, and if you did not receive an annual tax bill from either the previous owner or the Tax Collector, you should contact the Tax Collector immediately and request one. It is your responsibility to obtain the bill. State law stipulates that failure to receive a bill does not permit the Tax Collector to excuse penalties on late payments.
In addition to annual taxes, you will probably be responsible for paying Supplemental Property Taxes. Any time property is sold or improved, the value of the property is reassessed. If the property has been reassessed at a higher value, you will receive one or more supplemental tax bills in addition to the annual bill mentioned above. (For more information on supplemental tax bills, please read our section on Supplemental Property Taxes.) If the property has been reassessed at a lower value, you will receive a refund.
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Current secured tax bill:
Paying on time will avoid penalties!
If your bill says you have prior taxes owing, you should contact the Tax Collector's Office at (925) 608-9500 to get the current amount due. Please note that these taxes are not included in the total amount due on the Secured bill, and additional penalty on the prior taxes accrues monthly at a rate of 18% per annum.
The State Controller's Office (SCO) administers the Property Tax Postponement (PTP) Program, which allows eligible homeowners to postpone payment of current year property taxes on their primary residence. A postponement of property taxes is a deferment of current year property taxes that must eventually be repaid. Repayment is secured by a lien against the real property or a security agreement with the Department of Housing and Community Development for manufactured homes. Funding is limited and distributed on a first come, first served basis. Due to funding limitations, all who qualify may not be approved.
If you do not pay the first installment of your annual tax bill at the Tax Collector's Office by 5:00 p.m. on December 10 (if December 10 falls on a weekend or holiday, taxes are not delinquent until 5:00 p.m. the next business day), or payment is not U.S.P.S. postmarked by that time and date, then the taxes become delinquent and a 10% delinquent penalty is added to any unpaid balance.
If you do not pay the second installment at the Tax Collector's Office by 5:00 p.m. on April 10 (if April 10 falls on a weekend or holiday, taxes are not delinquent until 5:00 p.m. the next business day.), or payment is not U.S.P.S. postmarked by that time and date, it becomes delinquent and a 10% penalty plus an administrative charge of $20.00 is added to the unpaid balance.
If you do not pay the installments of your supplemental tax bill by the applicable delinquency dates, the same penalties accrue as for delinquent annual taxes.
If you pay your second installment without having paid the first, your payment will be applied to the unpaid taxes and penalties on the first installment and will leave your second installment unpaid and possibly delinquent.
If you do not pay either or both installments at the Tax Collector's Office by 5:00 p.m. on June 30 (if June 30 falls on a weekend or holiday, taxes must be paid by 5:00 p.m. on the preceding business day), or payment is not U.S.P.S. postmarked by that time and date, then the property becomes tax-defaulted and additional penalties and costs accrue.
Once the property has become tax defaulted, a redemption fee of $15 and additional penalties begin to accrue at the rate of 1 1/2% per month of the unpaid taxes. This monthly penalty is added at 5:00 p.m. on the last day of each month (or the following business day if the last day of the month falls on a weekend or holiday).
Your taxes can remain unpaid for a maximum of five years following their tax default, after which time your property becomes subject to the power of sale. This means that your property will be sold at a public auction or acquired by a public agency if you do not pay the taxes before the date on which the property is offered for sale or acquisition.
The amount needed to redeem tax-defaulted property in full is the sum of the following:
To obtain an estimate of the amount required to redeem your property, you should contact the Tax Collector's Office at (925) 608-9500. When making your request, you will need to provide the Parcel Number, which you can find on any previous tax bill, the Sale ID (SID) found on your Redemption Tax Notice, or the address of the property. Also, be sure to specify the date on which you wish to redeem so that the penalty can be calculated properly. One year's delinquent taxes may not be redeemed separately from other years delinquent taxes. When the redemption amount is calculated, the total taxes owed for all delinquent years are combined together.
NO. Our office does NOT accept partial payments for current tax bills. Any payment less than the amount due at the time of receipt will be returned to the payer.
Please be aware that a 10% late-payment penalty will be assessed on the unpaid balance on the first installment. The penalty will also attach to the unpaid portion of the second installment plus a $20 cost.
Do you have an impound account with your lender? If so, you should receive a tax bill in your name with the word "INFORMATION COPY" appearing on the top right-hand corner of the front of the form.
If not, call your lender immediately to find out! If you have refinanced your house since the original billing and either your new lender or you is responsible for paying the bill, you must notify our office immediately of the change and request another bill be sent. The bill must still be paid in full by the due date regardless of the circumstance.
Special assessments are a charge on a tax bill for a service or benefit provided directly to a property. They are collected at the same time and in the same manner property taxes are collected.
Examples of these types of assessments are garbage collection, sewer, lights and landscaping maintenance, mosquito abatement, fire protection, water, sanitation and other such services.
A special district is formed in order to provide property specific services or benefits. These districts are permitted to charge an assessment for the services rendered under the applicable state law that allowed their creation. In accordance with state law, each fiscal year the special district provides the county Auditor-Controller with a listing of the parcels and the amounts to be charged to each parcel on the property tax roll. The district also provides the Auditor-Controller with a resolution authorizing the placement of the charge on specific parcels. Provided the legal requirements are met by special district, the county Auditor must place the special assessment charge on a property tax bill.
State law requires the immediate reassessment of property (for tax purposes) whenever a change of ownership or completion of construction occurs. If applicable, you will receive a supplemental tax bill reflecting the change in value for the balance of the tax year. Due dates for a supplemental tax bill depends on when the bill is mailed.
A decrease in value will result in a negative supplemental tax bill being issued. These negative bills or refunds do not cause a change to your current annual tax bill which must be paid timely to avoid penalty.
Supplemental tax bills do not replace the regular tax bill. Supplemental tax bills are not mailed to your mortgage company. They are not paid by funds in your impound account. If you receive a supplemental tax bill and have any questions about payment responsibility, please contact your mortgage company.
Any taxpayer may apply for Installment Plan for Redemption taxes as long the property in question has been in tax-default for less than five years.
Yes, but not until the delinquent or "defaulted" taxes have been transferred to the Redemption roll, which occurs approximately mid-July following the fiscal year in which the taxes were due.
An Redemption Installment Plan allows a taxpayer the ability to pay Redemption taxes in multiple installments. It is strongly recommended that prior to applying for the Redemption Installment Plan, you contact your lender/mortgage company to ensure they allow a Tax Collector's payment plan to pay the defaulted taxes. Please be aware that an Redemption Installment Plan cannot be started (or restarted) after the property becomes Subject To Power To Sell. This occurs when the property has been on Redemption roll for more than five years.
To start an installment plan, you must:
To maintain the installment plan in good standing, you must:
Failure to make the required minimum payment and/or to pay the annual Secured taxes or any supplemental taxes that are due on or before April 10 of each year will result in a termination of the Redemption Installment Plan. Another Plan may be started only after the beginning of the next fiscal year as long as the property has not been in tax-default for more than five years.
NOTE: You may pay the total unpaid balance plus accrued interest any time before final payment is due. If you wish detailed information about a Redemption Installment Plan, contact the Tax Collector's Office at (925) 608-9500, or click HERE.
Yes. Interest continues to accrue at a rate 1.5% per month (18% APR) on the unpaid balance.
If the installment plan defaults, a new plan may not be started until July 1 of the following fiscal year. Additional penalties at an annual rate of 18% will continue to be computed on the unpaid balance each time a plan is restarted. Please be aware that an Redemption Installment Plan cannot be started after the property becomes Subject To Power To Sell. This occurs when the property has been delinquent for more than five years.
Example: If you have delinquent taxes from the 1997-98 tax year, as of July 1, 2003, you CANNOT participate in the installment plan. You must pay in full the amount of outstanding taxes to keep the property from being sold at the Public Auction that is scheduled for early 2004.
Five years after the first year of nonpayment, your property becomes Subject to Power to Sell and may be offered at the next scheduled annual public auction.
Don't panic! Prior to the end of the fifth year of default, we may have options available for you to bring your taxes current. Give us a call at (925) 608-9500 or e-mail us at [email protected].


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I looked at my father's medals today, He retired a Colonel, Army reserves. I was kind of surprised to see his combat infantry badge from WW-2 is sterling silver, I was enlisted (drafted) 2 years Vietnam, and received a combat infantry badge, looks similar, but of course it is not sterling, as I guess Officers get even better medals, than enlisted men, even if they are same medal. I do not care, I did not like war. But now happy I have a few of these sterling CIB"s, and a few that are not sterling.


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Today much ceremony is made of presidents signing bills into laws. Back in the 1500s when Queen Elizabeth I wanted to authenticate newly issued royal documents, she had her seal attached to them.
A recently acquired collection of seals from the first through the 20th century is on display in the lobby of Princeton University's Firestone Library through Nov. 30. The collection of British sigillography was donated to the University by Bruce C. Willsie, a 1986 Princeton graduate from Redmond, Wash.
"Since the dawn of recorded history, people have authenticated legal documents by means of engraved seal matrices or dies (generally stone or metal), which were used to make impressions in soft materials such as wet clay or warm beeswax," said Don Skemer, curator of manuscripts in the library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections . "Sigillography is the historical study of seals, the actual impressions."
After the Roman conquest of Britain in the first century A.D., people in England began using seals to authenticate documents. During the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), royal documents came to have two-sided pendant seals, generally attached to the document with a parchment tag and later braided cords. Most common in England were "equestrian seals," portraying the king enthroned on the front, surrounded by the symbols of royal authority, and depicting him as a mounted knight on the back.
Willsie, a collector primarily of rare printed materials related to English common law, previously has presented many gifts to the Princeton library. The Bruce C. Willsie Collection of British Sigillography contains a small number of English royal seals with portraits of King Edward IV, Queen Elizabeth I, William and Mary and Queen Victoria. In addition, the collection includes 95 seal matrices in bronze, latten, lead and copper alloys.
Hours for the exhibition are 8 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 9 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. For more information on the collection, contact Skemer via e-mail or at (609) 258-3184.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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Exclusive! Watch Jeremy Jordan Sing Emotional Finale From New Musical In The Light
Broadway.com is offering an exclusive first look of Jeremy Jordan singing "Her Embrace" from the new musical In the Light: A Faustian Tale. With a score by Michael Mott, the musical follows Dr. Johann Faustus (Jordan), an astronomer who is accused of blasphemy by the Holy Inquisition and plans a rebellion. The company includes Solea Pfeiffer, Ciara Renée, Antonio Cipriano, Bobby Conte Thornton, Anne Fraser Thomas, Aisha Jackson and Zachary James. Nathan Wright and Justin Silvestri wrote the book for the show, which features orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg and arrangements by Mott and Joshua Zecher-Ross. The 15-track world premiere studio cast recording is now available. Check out the video below to see Jordan perform the musical's emotional final number.


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Azadeh T.
I learned from practicing Kripalu Yoga to start at my inner home. There's a home everywhere you go.
I was born in Iran. The political landscape there was not something I agreed with or felt I could change. I came to the United States to go to school. I've met many nice people here, but after 9/11, for some people, anyone of Middle Eastern origin represented the face of the enemy. I had many unpleasant experiences. Without knowing my beliefs, people would hate me just from looking at my face or seeing my last name.
At Kripalu, I heard comments from the teachers like, "Thank yourself for being here." There was the utmost care and compassion for yourself. That's what I needed to heal myself, the utmost compassion. Also, having compassion for the people who hated me for things I had no responsibility for. I learned to take the seat of the observer, instead of taking the seat of the judge and saying this is right or wrong.
Before Kripalu, any kind of yoga I tried had been bittersweet. There were so many things I couldn't do. I thought, maybe my body is not made for it. When I came to Kripalu I could see that it's about doing what's good for your body. I learned there is no perfect Downward Dog. I began seeing yoga as a way to grow, and it's okay if I never have a perfect pose.
I wanted to immerse myself in the experience of leading the yogic life. I was teaching college physics at the time, and I was also going through a divorce. I was really seeking a break. I came back to Kripalu for 16 months through the volunteer program. After being a volunteer, I did a monthlong Yoga Teacher Training. I want to teach special-needs groups, people who are going through hard emotional times. I want to bring love and self-love to the people I teach. Even in the most hostile environment, there is an unlimited source of divine love. There is a spring inside every one of us that can sustain us.
Now I realize that suffering is part of life. I read in the Bhagavad Gita that the master adopts an attitude of friendship toward everything: toward happiness and toward sadness. I learned it's my attachment to the outcome that makes the suffering seem so huge. These are my new ways of thinking. This is a great gift.
I heard in many Kripalu Yoga classes the phrase, "Close your eyes and come home." I learned from practicing Kripalu Yoga to start at my inner home. There's a home everywhere you go. That simple idea of coming home is just beautiful.
—Azadeh T., yoga teacher, La Jolla, California
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Ron Paul on Principles & ValuesRepublican Representative (TX-14); previously Libertarian for President |
Don't get me wrong--libertarianism is a perfectly legitimate political persuasion and worldview as long as it is honest about what it is. Either out of ignorance or indifference, many of those who are true libertarians call themselves Republicans or conservatives. But, in fact, there are distinct differences. Before I get singed by hot and angry mail from Ron Paul disciples, I want to be emphatic in stating my sincere respect for Congressman Paul. I was convinced that at least had some genuine convictions and was willing to stand by them and on them no matter the audience.
The irony of the faux-cons is that while they are marked by their disdain and sometimes outright contempt of religious people, they are, however, devotees of a religion, albeit one that is pagan in nature. In the case of libertarians (the faux-cons), the god of choice is personal power and wealth. If there is a Muhammad-like prophet for them, it might be Ayn Rand, but this philosophy has many disciples, and most of them don't even realize they are devotees of a worldview that's as much a religion as an economic system.
On November 5, 2007, we set a record when we raised over $4 million online in a single day. Not only is the freedom message popular, it is more intensely popular than any other political message.
A: I wouldn�t have appointed her, because I would have looked for somebody that I would have seen as a much stricter constitutionalist.
A: I�ll bet you any money I didn�t use the word �traitor.� So I think that�s misleading. But a failure, yes, in many ways. The government didn�t shrink. Ultimately, after he got in office, he said, �All I want to do is reduce the rate of increase in size of government.� That�s not my goal. My goal is to reduce our government to a constitutional size.
Q: But if he�s a total failure, why are you using, using his picture in your brochure?
A: Well, because he ran on a good program, and his idea was a limited government. Get rid of the Department of Education, a strong national defense.
A: Because I represent what Republicanism used to be--that part of the Republican Party that used to be non-interventionists overseas; when the Republicans defended individual liberty and the Constitution and decreased spending. So the reason the Republican Party is shrinking, why the base is so small, is because they don�t stand for these ideals any more. So I stand for the ideals of the Republican Party.
A: I have no intention to do that.
Q: Absolute promise?
A: I have no intention of doing that.
Q: Well, but �no intention� is a wiggle word.
A: Well, I deserve one wiggle now and then.
Q: So no Shermanesque statement like �I will not run as an independent.�
A: I have no intention, no plans of doing it, and that�s about 99.9%. I don�t like those absolutists terms in politics.
Q: But the door�s open a little bit.
A: Not very much. We have February 5th coming up. We have a campaign to run. How many other candidates have you asked, �Are you going to run as a third party candidate if you don�t win?� Have you asked John McCain that?
Q: Well, if someone has a history of running as a third party candidate, sure. You ran in �88 as a Libertarian. It�s a logical question.
A: But there are independents. So ask them, too.
Paul, whose campaign has been embraced by a zealous community of online supporters, raised $4.2 million on Nov. 5, [corresponding with Guy Fawkes Day]. The current fundraising effort was timed for the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a day meant to resonate with the Libertarian sensibilities of his supporters.
The man who engineered it-- Trevor Lyman, a 37-year-old music promoter--has no official ties to the campaign and had no political experience before he engineered the innovative model for Nov. 5. He set up a website that solicited pledges for contributions to be made directly to the Paul campaign on that day--a technique that became known as a �money bomb,� which he used again to such great effect Sunday.
A: Yesterday it went over $10.5 million. Our goal was to raise $12 million by the end of the quarter. And there is going to be another super day sponsored by our supporters, spontaneously, like they did on 11/5, when they raised $4.3 million. And they say this one is going to be bigger, and that�s December 16th. So, something big is going on. The people are really annoyed with conventional politics, and we�re spending this money in Iowa. So I think those polls are going to continue to shift.
The idea of direct democracy might have broad appeal to an electorate sick of a political system mired in soft money, corporate cronyism, and partisan gridlock.
PAUL: Not right now I don�t, not unless they�re willing to end the war and bring our troops home, not unless they�re willing to look at excessive spending.
MCCAIN: You don�t want me then, pal.
PAUL: No, I�m not going to support them if they continue down the path which has taken our party down the tubes. I mean, we�ve lost credibility because of all our spending, because we have violated the civil liberties of all the American people, and we have adopted the Democrats� foreign policy. Why don�t we run on George Bush�s foreign policy of a humble foreign policy and no nation building and don�t police the world? Then I�ll support them.
HUCKABEE: We are one nation. We can�t be divided. We have to be one nation, under God. That means if we make a mistake, we make it as a single country: the United States of America, not the divided states of America.
PAUL: No, when we make a mistake, it is the obligation of the people, through their representatives, to correct the mistake, not to continue the mistake.
HUCKABEE: And that�s what we do on the floor of the Senate.
PAUL: No, we�ve dug a hole for ourselves and we�ve dug a hole for our party. We�re losing elections and we�re going down next year if we don�t change it, and it has all to do with foreign policy and we have to wake up to this fact.
HUCKABEE: Even if we lose elections, we should not lose our honor, and that is more important than [electoral gains for] the Republican Party
A: I think we should read the First Amendment, where it says, �Congress shall write no law.� And we should write a lot less laws regarding this matter. It shouldn�t be a matter of the president or the Congress. It should be local people, local officials--we just don�t need more laws determining religious things or prayer in school. We should allow people at the local level. That�s what the Constitution tells us. We don�t need somebody in Washington telling us what we can do, because we don�t have perfect knowledge. And that�s the magnificence of our Constitution and our republic. We sort out the difficult problems at local levels and we don�t have one case fit all. That�s why we shouldn�t have it at a central level.
The feeling of frustration prevalent in the country today is certainly understandable. Government is so big and the bureaucracy so cumbersome that the average person has little to say about his economic destiny.
Not surprisingly, half of the people don�t register to vote and less than half of those who do rarely vote.
Something certainly has gone wrong. The role of government and the people�s attitude toward government have changed dramatically since 1787, with most of the changes occurring in the 20th century. It appears that we are in the waning days of the Republic.
The Adherents.com website is an independent project and is not supported by or affiliated with any organization (academic, religious, or otherwise).
Such factors as religious service attendance, belief, practice, familiarity with doctrine, belief in certain creeds, etc., may be important to sociologists, religious leaders, and others. But these are measures of religiosity and are usually not used academically to define a person�s membership in a particular religion. It is important to recognize there are various levels of adherence, or membership within religious traditions or religious bodies. There�s no single definition, and sources of adherent statistics do not always make it clear what definition they are using.
Everyone in the RLC joined for their own reasons, but it can be presumed that they all would agree that in many races the GOP is the best way to go in order to actually get a libertarian elected. It can also be said that the LP runs educational campaigns, where the goal is not actually electing someone, but educating the public about the libertarian philosophy. We are interested in getting someone who holds the libertarian philosophy elected.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2006 AU scores as follows:
Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) is a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding religious freedom. AU is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving the constitutional principle of church-state separation as the only way to ensure religious freedom for all Americans.
Americans United is a national organization with members in all 50 states. We are headquartered in Washington, D.C., and led by the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director. AU has more than 75,000 members from all over the country. They include people from all walks of life and from various faith communities, as well as those who profess no particular faith. We are funded by donations from our members and others who support church-state separation. We do not seek, nor would we accept, government funding.


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back to milos! i'm still going through some of the photos, and i look at them anytime i'm completely overwhelmed with work...it's my escape. i can still feel the sun, smell the sea, taste the fresh tomatoes.
here's an outfit i wore for a date night. i love this dress for greece, it's the color of the sea! and that bun- made possible with one of these genius things. and yes, that lipstick is the one i mentioned here.
stay tuned friends, i have a travel giveaway coming up next week! it's my first ever giveaway, i've been waiting for the right fit to come along and i think this is the one!
dress: geren ford (a few years old), shoes: seven for all mankind (similar), clutch: lauren merkin, bracelet, jcrew


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Over the past 20 years, cases of imported falciparum malaria in the UK have significantly increased due to rise in the numbers of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas, combined with a failure to use prevention measures.
In 1987, there were 5120 reported cases of the potentially fatal faliciparum malaria, increasing to 6753 in 2002. These findings highlight the urgent need for health messages and services targeted at travellers from migrant groups visiting friends and family abroad, say the authors.
Malaria acquired in one of the 150 countries where it is endemic and then imported into non-endemic countries accounts for a significant proportion of largely preventable disease and death in Europe every year.
Dr Adrian Smith and colleagues from the Health Protection Agency's Malaria Reference Laboratory, present the latest trends in malaria in the UK between 1987 and 2006, using data from the Malaria Reference Laboratory, involving 39 300 confirmed cases of malaria.
64.5% of 20 488 malaria cases amongst UK travellers had visited friends and relatives in malaria endemic countries. This is reflected by the huge increase in the number of UK residents travelling to malaria endemic areas-from 593 000 visits in 1987 to 2.6 million visits in 2004.
Imported malaria cases were heavily concentrated in communities with frequent travel to see friends and relatives in West Africa.
The researchers also note a worrying trend in cases of the potentially fatal falciparum malaria which have increased steady over the past 20 years in the UK. Of all malaria imported to the UK, 96% of falciparum malaria occurred after travel to Africa. Travellers to Nigeria and Ghana, neither common tourist destinations, account for half of all imported falciparum cases.
Importantly, say the authors, only 42% of UK travellers reported taking any form of malaria prophylaxis during their travels. In particular, people visiting friends and relatives in their country of origin were less likely to report using prevention measures than other travellers. For example, amongst malaria cases in travellers to sub-Saharan Africa between 1999, only 7% of people with malaria visiting friends and relatives reported using recommended drugs, compared to 24% of other travellers with malaria.
These findings highlight that health messages are not getting through to ethnic minority groups, particularly those visiting West Africa, warn the authors. "Targeting messages tailored to these groups is essential in primary care and public health?and this would have a substantial impact on UK malaria", they add.
Increasing the use of effective antimalarial prophylactic drugs by travellers visiting sub-Saharan Africa should be a priority, they conclude.
The study published on BMJ.com. Research paper: Imported malaria and high risk groups: an observational study using UK surveillance data 1987?2006
Source: British Medical Journal, UK